What were the last 5 al***s you listened to?

Yesterday evening I think I listened to

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Swedish singer Wixell among others)
Kajsa och Malena: Den bästa/enda? vägen hem
Cecilia Bartoldi: Live in Verona
Berlioz: Symphonié fantastique (only the first ten minutes, wasn´t quite in the mood for it)
Rolling Stones: Love in vain (from Let it bleed LP) and as Ry Cooder appears on that one I ended up with
Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban: Mambo Sinuendo

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Originally posted by Nick Lees:
_Gong_

"Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 1" is in the "Camembert Electronique" vein

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To which we can also add "Angels Egg" and "You". "Magik Brother" is also worth trying to get hold of - difficult to find though (Any one got this and want to get rid of it??? - Sorry I shouldn't do that). I believe Camembert is a good starting point together with "Gong Live etc" for those wanting to get a feel for the Daevid Allen days.

From "Shamal" onwards there is a significant change in style - Pierre Moerlen had become the main influence on the band which heralded the jazz-fusionesque era. If that is your cup of tea then "Gazeuze!", "Downwind" and the "Espressos" could be worth tracking down.

The history of Gong is complex with many coming and going - a notable member for a period of time was Steve Hillage (he who pops up almost everywhere - was he not part of the KLF?).

If you like the early stuff ie Camembert then it may be worthwhile looking out for the Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth solo stuff (that's what I intend to do ...).

Also have a look at [URL=www.planetgong.co.uk]

Hope this helps

Mike

Oh, and the last five albums listened to were:

Sad Cafe - Facades
Audioslave - Audioslave (in the car)
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Eels - Beautiful Freak

Mike

my last five LP's

the archies - sugar sugar ( don't knock it, great Pop tunes)
meet me in london
ella - clap hands
matthew sweet - blue sky on mars
jason falkner- can you still feel.


Tim

Last 5
Vol 1 Afro Celts (CD)
On vinyl
Transformer Lou Reed
Listen Like Thieves INXS
Fly by Night/
Farewell to Kings Rush

Howard

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14 (Fine Arts Quartet)
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14 (Amadeus Quartet)

The latter two LPs, both from the early sixties, found their way into my record collection a few years ago but I cannot recall having listened to either before.

Listening successively to two interpretations of a piece seems a terribly hi-fi-ish thing to do, but after being puzzled by the FAQ recording I really had to listen to the AQ one to make sure it wasn't my hi-fi or my ageing brain that was responsible for my puzzlement. [It wasn't].

--J

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Goldfrapp- Black Cherry
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (still thoroughly underwhelming)
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Old 97's - Fight Songs

NAIMGAIM- Yo La Tengo was in town last night; New Pornographers tonight!

Nick,

Have you tried Howe Gelb's solo work? I think you may well like "The Listener"

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/gelb_howe/listener.shtml

Matthew

... I just had to start with

Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - "Jazz Samba"

followed by

Supergrass - Live on other Planets
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
Red Snapper - Red Snapper
Iso68 - Here There

Hmmm, some interesting lists here. Here's mine:

Steely Dan - Everything Must Go (I love this album. It's had some lukewarm reviews; maybe the reviewers didn't live with it for long enough before making a judgement. I think it's among Steely Dan's very best.)

The Complete Thelonious Monk on Riverside (first three discs)

Cornelius - Mic Check (from Fantasma - worth buying the album just for this wonderful, original track)

Boards of Canada - Music is Math (from Geodaddy - hypnotically, poignantly beautiful)

Miles Davis - Live at the Filmore East (played loud!)

PS Ludwig -

Instead of "my male 'domestic partner' neighbours" why not just say "gay"? This forum already has some vaguely mysogynist themes - let's not start getting into vaguely homophobic ones!

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
My first Kraftwerk purchase got it's first airing on the drive home from work on friday. The opener 'europe endless' went down very well.. perfect eurpean road trip music. The rest of it hasn't impressed in quite the same way though.


Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
First Tangerine Dream purchase, also going down surprisingly well.


Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
Trying again with this one. I love the inclusion of classical instruments but the material hasn't yet grabbed me like some of their previous stuff.


Richard & Linda Thompson - Guitar, Vocal
A recent purchase, bought principally for the extended versions of 'night comes in' and 'calvary cross'... delicious guitar work!


David Bowie - The Heathen
Changed my mind on this one, it's actually rather satisying.


Fairport Convention - Liege and Leaf
A quick run over the hills with this little baby on the Walkman... came over all english pastoral for an hour!

Maximilian Hecker - Rose
He is the cousin of the lass in the office next to mine, and has been getting good reviews in NME. It's lush girlie indie-pop. All jingly guitars, and soft vocals. Pretty catchy.

Blur - Think Tank
Edan - Primitive Plus
Fog - Ether Teeth
Sage Francis - Makeshift Patriot

Radiohead Hail to the thief
Him Love Metal
The white Stripes Elephant
Eels SoulJaccker
Bonnie "prince " Billy Master and everyone

MY system : Naim Nait 5 amplifier,Naim cd 5 ,Epos M 15 speakers,Naca5

An unexpected and grossly unwelcome tax bill having put paid to the potential purchase of Nick's old 135's, I drowned my frustration in the following last night...

Johnny A - Sometime Tuesday Morning - exceptionally cool guitar-based album somewhere between Hank Marvin and Jeff Beck with a little Chet Atkins thrown in. Includes an absolutely cracking version of Wichita Lineman.

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - really enjoyed World Without Tears and found both this album and Essence for £6.99 in Longplayer at TW at hte weekend. Great, simple passionate songs, well produced, great voice, thoroughly enjoyable.

Eels - Shootenanny - another good album from Eels and more immediately accessible than Souljacker, which, unlike Nick, I thought has been one of their best.

Steely Dan - Everything Must Go - All the usual Steely Dan signatures, will need some more plays before I can make up my mind on how good it is.

Johnny & Edgar Winter - Together Live - the kids got this LP for me for Fathers Day. Thanks kids.

Knob Creek Bourbon (half a bottle of)

Dave

Nick, Matthew re Howe Gelb.

I have his solo album Confluence, Giant Sand 'Chore of Enchantment' and also a little gem by OP8 called Slush which is another of his projects. Each has moments of real magic and some tracks which go a bit far off the wall for me. The OP8 is probably the most consistent, it also features Lisa Germano. Confluence wanders dangerously close to Tom Waits in places.

Bruce

Last 5 listens

Angie Stone - Black Diamond
I bought Mahogany Soul last year and it is excellent, so thought I'd try her previous album, maybe not quite up to Mahogany Soul standards but great stuff all the same.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is crying.
I like Stevie, but had not bought this album as it was a posthumous release of odds and sods. Well it's absolutely brilliant and rates easily along with his best. Anyone without this who likes rocky/blues should definately give it a listen.

Calaxico - Feast of Wire
Just Brilliant - enough said.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
My second listen of this new purchase, and It's rubbish, does nothing whatsoever for me, I'll give it a couple more goes over the next couple of weeks.

10cc - How Dare You
Having read the 10cc article in the latest Uncut it prompted me to dig out a couple of 10cc albums, I then saw this for £5 so bought it and it's pretty good, clever arrangements, interesting idea's, a couple of naff tracks but otherwise good. A much (unfairly) derided band, due in main I think to their rock lite approach, but good songs, good musicians, and plenty of ideas.

Somewhat boring as lists of 5 go, but...

Everything Must Go, Steely Dan
Everything Must Go, Steely Dan
Felt Mountain, Goldfrapp
Two Against Nature, Steely Dan
Everything Must Go, Steely Dan

Pete.

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Originally posted by greeny:
Angie Stone - Black Diamond
I bought Mahogany Soul last year and it is excellent, so thought I'd try her previous album, maybe not quite up to Mahogany Soul standards but great stuff all the same.

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If you like Angie Stone try India Aria's "Acoustic Soul".

Steely Dan - Everything must Go.
About 2 plays a day at the moment, absolutely fantastic IMO.

Cinematic Orchestra - The hidden Camera
Really atmospheric album with great playing.

Paddy McAloon - I trawl the megahertz
Takes a few listens but delivers

Terry Walker - Untitled
Only played it twice, a few really nicely put together R&B tunes with people like Pino Pallidino offering support. Great Voice.

The white stripes - elephant
Great bouncing around the room when drunk music.

Lucky Pierre - Hypnogogia

Radiohead

Ive started so I'll finish:

- Hail to the Thief

Astrobotnia - Part 01

Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul

Foo Fighters - first album (in the car)

Being XPS-less at the mo' I've been digging out some older vinyl:

Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud.
Forgot how good this was, mainly acoustic ballads, beautifully recorded, great songs, quite lovely.

GorkY's Zycotic Mynci - How I Long to Feel that Summer in my Heart.
Not perhaps theor best album (Spanish Dance Troupe (IMO)) but it's still great to have a regular dose of Gorky's, and the track 'Christina' has a 2 minute section towards the end that is so beautiful it makes you weep.

Don Henley - End of the Innocence
Typical AOR fodder, Some good songs (especially New York minute) but often spoiled by overblow 80's production with strings, brass, bells, kitchen sink etc etc.

Blur - 13
Thought I'd listen to this to see if it inspired me to buy think tank, but no it's not very good, I prefer the first 4 Blur albums over the last few so I think I've decided I've lost faith with Blur (along with Radiohead).

Dire Straits - Love over Gold
I like this album, Telegraph Road in particular being superb, especially where the piano can be heard bashing through the melee towards the end, excellent guitar work as well (as you would expect).

Wow! just been checking back over 3 pages of posts, some good ones in there but quite shocked at how many people are stuck in time warps and taking no risks, like the artists being listened to. There is sooooooooo much good music out there to be explored and dug around for, loosen your booty and let your brain wobble!

Yeah I know 'to each his own'
I'm being judgemental and all that, but good grief, some of yer gotta pop yer head out o' the sewer and sniff the perfume!

Orland Cachaito Lopez - 'Cachaito'
Nightmares on Wax - LateNightTales
St Germain - Tourist
Celso Fonseca - Natural
NuSpirit - Helsinki

Steve D

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Wow! just been checking back over 3 pages of posts, some good ones in there but quite shocked at how many people are stuck in time warps and taking no risks, like the artists being listened to. There is sooooooooo much good music out there to be explored and dug around for, loosen your booty and let your brain wobble!

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What, not trendy enough for you eh!!. Some people spend all there time looking for those obscure classics that they miss the excellent (mainstream) stuff under their noses, or dismiss it simply because it is mainsteam, this is a bigger crime in my book than not being so eclectic.

effinity

Do you have the last nightmares on wax studio album? IMO it was a massive let down after the first two.